Whitetail and axis will definitely mount each other. However the chances of that mating producing a viable fetus would be rare. The chance of a viable fetus bring carried to term is very rare. And the chance of even that jackpot surviving more than a few months after birth is so rare as to defy believably. But I guess it could happen in some freak way - I wouldn't bet my life against it happening.

However, it is MUCH more likely to have a whitetail that has genetically different coloring. There have been a few documented cases where fawn spots were carried through to adults. Not to mention piebalds, white, melanistic, or albinos.

I doubt it is a cross. But if you see one, don't look at spots - look for the black stripe running down the back.

As I said, MUCH more likely aberrant color on a whitetail. I was reading somewhere that as a fawn grows it increases a hormone or enzyme that causes the spots to disappear off the coat. If the deer has certain dietary deficits it can inhibit the production if the chemical and deer will retain the spots later than normal, even as fawn reaches its first year. But then it generally corrects itself.

However, there was a pic posted right here on this forum that a full grown deer that had retained its spots.

So far as crosses between species, it just doesn't happen. Mixing of chromosomes just doesn't work in nature. While egg fertilization is possible, it doesn't grow. Yes, there are cases where the BEGINS to develop, but generally cannot produce the required biochemistry to continue and it is reabsorbed by the body after a very short time. The body realizes it not working. In VERY rare cases the egg continues to grow in some bizarre blob of protoplasm that can hardly be considered an animal.

In even rarer cases where the gestation period is small, like rats, and recombinant DNA is not to bizarre, a fetus may be carried to term - but they are usually born dead or die after the blob is born. There is bizarre exhibition of human fetuses in Japan as the result of experimentation during WWII.

Still more bizarre, although more "common", is the case of parthenogenesis. This is phenomena where an unfertilized egg develops into a full and complete animal but with only half the normal chromosomes. This can be naturally or artificially induced. In some cases, just the 'pricking' of the outer sheath of an ovum triggers the start of cell reproduction and development of a zygote. This is accomplished in the laboratory with a needle, and sometimes in nature by the penetration of the ovum of a spermatozoa of a dissimilar species.

In the case of parthenogenesis, a full animal is produced, born, and can live a normal lifespan. However, they can never reproduce and are always males (if I remember correctly). This has been demonstrated in just every species of fish, birds, insects, AND mammals.

In fact, all male honey bees only have half the chromosomes of female bees. And the 'haploid' grass carp produced only have half the number of chromosomes. Haploid cells actually means that.

I doubt it is a cross. But if you see one, don't look at spots - look for the black stripe running down the back.

As I said, MUCH more likely aberrant color on a whitetail. I was reading somewhere that as a fawn grows it increases a hormone or enzyme that causes the spots to disappear off the coat. If the deer has certain dietary deficits it can inhibit the production if the chemical and deer will retain the spots later than normal, even as fawn reaches its first year. But then it generally corrects itself.

However, there was a pic posted right here on this forum that a full grown deer that had retained its spots.

So far as crosses between species, it just doesn't happen. Mixing of chromosomes just doesn't work in nature. While egg fertilization is possible, it doesn't grow. Yes, there are cases where the BEGINS to develop, but generally cannot produce the required biochemistry to continue and it is reabsorbed by the body after a very short time. The body realizes it not working. In VERY rare cases the egg continues to grow in some bizarre blob of protoplasm that can hardly be considered an animal.

In even rarer cases where the gestation period is small, like rats, and recombinant DNA is not to bizarre, a fetus may be carried to term - but they are usually born dead or die after the blob is born. There is bizarre exhibition of human fetuses in Japan as the result of experimentation during WWII.

Still more bizarre, although more "common", is the case of parthenogenesis. This is phenomena where an unfertilized egg develops into a full and complete animal but with only half the normal chromosomes. This can be naturally or artificially induced. In some cases, just the 'pricking' of the outer sheath of an ovum triggers the start of cell reproduction and development of a zygote. This is accomplished in the laboratory with a needle, and sometimes in nature by the penetration of the ovum of a spermatozoa of a dissimilar species.

In the case of parthenogenesis, a full animal is produced, born, and can live a normal lifespan. However, they can never reproduce and are always males (if I remember correctly). This has been demonstrated in just every species of fish, birds, insects, AND mammals.

In fact, all male honey bees only have half the chromosomes of female bees. And the 'haploid' grass carp produced only have half the number of chromosomes. Haploid cells actually means that.